"One Night Stands and Lost Weekends is a sterling collection of short crime fiction and suspense novelettes penned between 1958 and 1962 by a budding young master and soon-to-be Grand Master--an essential slice of genre history, and more fun than a high-speed police chase following a bank job gone bad" -- back cover.
I really liked this collection of pulp short stories, for one it makes me want to check out more Lawrence Block. And more importantly it Is interesting to look at the pulp genre done really simply and well that it could be a good way to practise writing pulp. Wannabe crime writers should check it out and start practising
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